Indian Journal of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy - An International Journal
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 4

To Compare the Inter-Rater Reliability of Students using Standardized Hand Tools

  • Author:
  • Shubha Arora1,2,, Ona P Desai3
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 280 to 284

1Assistant Professor (Occupational Therapy), Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, Delhi

2Formerly H.O.D (Department of Occupational therapy), D.I.R.D, Under Guru Gobind Singh I.P University

3Associate Professor (Occupational Therapy), Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, Delhi

*Corresponding author: Shubha Arora, Assistant Professor, 120-B, Deep Enclave, Pocket -D, Phase-3, Ashok Vihar, Delhi-110052, Mobile No-9810195029, Email: arora.shubha@yahoo.co.in

Online published on 25 November, 2013.

Abstract

"To compare the inter-rater reliability of students using Standardized Hand tools"

To analyze the inter- rater reliability of occupational therapy students using standardized hand tools

Jamar Hand Dynamometer for grip strength

Baseline pinch gauge for pinch strength

A convenience sample of four occupational therapy students volunteered to participate in this study.

Total subjects participated in the study were thirty. Four Students were assigned, six different rating teams. Each rater served on 3 rating teams for data collection. Each rating team was assigned four tasks i.e. one grip strength and three pinch strength {tip to tip, three jaw chuck, lateral} of dominant hand.

The correlation between two of raters is established for 4 different parameters by subjecting the data to Intra-class correlation coefficient test..This test was preferred over Pearson correlation analysis because it takes the mean of all the subjects where as Pearson takes average of one group and scales the data accordingly.

It was found that perfect agreement exists for lateral pinch test for all the six groups and for other 3 tests were showing strong/moderate agreement for one group where as other 5 groups had shown perfect agreement

Keywords

Tip to Tip Pinch, Three Jaw Pinch And Lateral Pinch